Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 23, 1969, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday june 23, 1969 alcohol no. 1 Factor in crashes study alcohol has been found to be the largest single Factor ing to fatal car crashes. Or. Eric o Flynn Campbell medical director of the traffic research foundation of can Ada told a rotary club meeting in the hotel fort Garry. A study carried out by the foundation during and 1w37 showed that of those Drivers who died within six hours after the Accident 54.5 per cent had been drinking. Of those who had been drinking. 78.9 per cent Hull blood alcohol concentrations of 0.10 per cent or More. At this level a Driver is impaired for Safe driving and is six to seven times As Likely to have an Accident. Or. Campbell added it is not Only the Drivers who have been drinking. There appear to be quite a few hammered pedestrians Perambo plating around our he said. Or. Campbell said a failure in any part of the system. Driver vehicle or environment i could cause an Accident and that failure usually occurs when something unexpected arises. I safely improvements have been made in the vehicle and i environment parts of the sys i Lem Campbell said. He estimated 41 per cent of i the moralities could have been prevented if the occupants of the car were wearing seat Hells. He said that As far As the Drivers Are concerned there is much that is still unknown and j a great Deal of work needs to be clone. I the traffic research foundation is a chartered non profit non governmental or Gaim Tiou of doctors sociologists engineers and others whose aim is to search for scientific evidence on which to base remedial action for can-1 Ada s traffic problems. Pc party opposes break with Taiwan Ottawa up the policy party that Canada is being of the progressive conservative Over solicitous in its approach to party toward Canadian Recagni i the peking chinese has been re Tion of communist China during the last week or probably Best be described As j so in the commons one of vigilance. The conservatives have direct conservative sources say that de a number of needling ques while the party endorses the Lions at the government tied to d affaires on the chinese Side i and by Canadian ambassador Arthur Andrew. Principle of recognition it does statements by or. Sharp on his not believe Canada should break i now ending scandinavian tour off relations with nationalist that he would be willing to meet China in order to implement the chinese diplomats in Stockholm principle As it turned out no such nor do conservatives believe meeting look place. I Canada should recognize main Stockholm is the site chosen land China s claim to Taiwan. Talc for talks Ullh also called Formosa Island seat i Canada on diplomatic re com of the nationalist government. Lion. Hese have so far been i 4 earned on by a commercial at on the second Point the con Tadloo a c p a Serva Tives Are not out of line with government policy since external affairs minister Mitchell Sharp has said that in recognizing a country diplomatically Canada does t necessarily recognize All its territorial claims. However the opposition s policy on ties with nationalist China seems diametrically n polite to that of the govern ment. Or. Sharp has stated that establishment of relations with peking will inevitably affect Canada s ties with Taiwan since both chinese governments claim jurisdiction Over the j Mainland s inhabit j ants. To probe interest rates Ottawa of cps finance minister Edgar Benson said the impression Given by the j Friday he intends to ask the external affairs minister and by commons c o m m i 11 e e on i sources in the government is Nance Trade and economic of that Canada is prepared to at d cent a Severance of diplomatic ties with by j problems created by High inter one Side or the other. Cost rates. The conservative position is said no will so before basically that of party Leader no commons adjourns june 271 Robert Stanfield. It represents a synthesis of conflicting views summer recess but it although the Issue has will be up to the committee to been hammered out in caucus. Decide How and when to conduct on one Side arc those who Are j Jalc Stutsy not keen on Canadian Clipso d n d p a o r k Matic recognition of peking until China shows a greater willingness to accept its National inter Scull noted that a congressional committee in Washington has started such an investigation i i i he suggested the commons a representative of this View i sit Durine the for its investigation. Is Robert Thompson red the former social credit Leader. On the other Side arc those so a parcel Post service within keen on recognition that province of Canada was would support a rupture in january. 1859. The Taiwan to bring it about. I weight limit was two pounds a representative of this Posi and the charge one shilling Tion is external affairs critic r. Three Pence a Pound. When g. L. Fairweather Fundy Roy widespread anxiety in Decimal currency was introduced in july that year the the irate became 25 cents a Pound. 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